Timeline for How to ask best practice questions?
Current License: CC BY-SA 3.0
18 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 2021 at 21:01 | history | edited | PolyGeo |
edited tags
|
|
| Jun 18, 2020 at 20:43 | comment | added | Martin Thoma | Maybe hacker news or reddit are better suited for this. | |
| Aug 9, 2018 at 17:14 | comment | added | rob | This answer is now the #1 search result for "how to ask best practice questions on stack overflow". While I genuinely appreciate the effort the author has taken to approach this, there aren't real answers here. I think it's ridiculous to assume there can't be a general consensus on best practices from a community that should strive to create them. Is there an opinion involved? Of course. But in my experience on SO, pragmatism will always prevail over baseless opinion. Best practice / A vs. B questions should be allowed to live somewhere. I don't see value in preventing the discussion. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 12:36 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://stackoverflow.com/ with https://stackoverflow.com/
|
|
| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:31 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.stackexchange.com/ with https://meta.stackexchange.com/
|
|
| Sep 21, 2015 at 17:20 | comment | added | ToolmakerSteve |
@AskeB. how I could ask which options I have and why to choose those. That sounds like exactly how to do it. Instead of asking for best, ask what the alternative solutions are, and the pros/cons of each solution.
|
|
| Apr 24, 2014 at 13:37 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Migration of MSO links to MSE links
|
|
| Aug 31, 2012 at 8:29 | answer | added | Aske B. | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 31, 2012 at 7:32 | comment | added | yannis | Also please ignore upvotes on comments, more often than not comments get upvoted for the wrong reasons... | |
| Aug 31, 2012 at 7:31 | comment | added | yannis | Telling you what to avoid might be a helpful nod to the right direction, but I don't think it qualifies as an answer to your question, as you are explicitly asking for what to do and not what to avoid. I'm a rep whore like everyone else ;), if I felt it was an answer I would have posted it as such, sometimes I even steal others' comments and post them as answers. | |
| Aug 31, 2012 at 7:27 | comment | added | Aske B. | @YannisRizos Even though I don't think your upvoted comment proposes any alternatives, only emphasizes that what I'm asking how to do is wrong, don't you think it is still qualified to be an answer, instead of just a comment? Or is that just not something people do here on meta? | |
| Aug 31, 2012 at 7:09 | comment | added | JJJ | There's also the possibility that your question is not something that can be asked on SO, no matter how it's worded. | |
| Aug 31, 2012 at 6:57 | comment | added | Aske B. | @YannisRizos nvm I misread your comment. My question still applies how I could ask which options I have and why to choose those. | |
| Aug 31, 2012 at 6:57 | comment | added | yannis | No, absolutely not, your question can be crap without ever mentioning "best practice" ;) What I'm saying is that "best practice" is a very common red flag, and you should avoid the phrase if possible. It won't save your question if it's not constructive, but it will protect it from people just scanning it and not really reading it (and unfortunately that's not really rare). | |
| Aug 31, 2012 at 6:57 | comment | added | gnat | related: Where in the (Stack Exchange) world can I initiate a programming-related discussion?, How to ask a broad question on SO?, Tag block request: best-practice | |
| Aug 31, 2012 at 6:53 | comment | added | Aske B. | @YannisRizos I'm confused. So if my title doesn't have your three mentioned phrases in them, it would allow me to ask what the best way to do this is? I'm gonna use my current un-properly-answered question as an example: stackoverflow.com/questions/12195445/…. Would it be okay for me to just blatantly ask what the best way to assign that variable from ASP.NET was, but still having the "How to..." in title? I thought I had seen many questions being flagged not constructive for doing this. | |
| Aug 31, 2012 at 6:49 | comment | added | yannis | Do not mention "best practice", "best way" or even "best" in your question's text if you can avoid it. Best practice questions are usually at the very low end of the quality spectrum, and even if yours is not people quickly scanning it (and not actually reading it) might confuse it for yet another overly broad and / or not constructive piece of crap. Tell us what the specific actual & practical problem you are trying to solve is, the answer with the most votes will most probably be the "best practice" for that specific problem. | |
| Aug 31, 2012 at 6:43 | history | asked | Aske B. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |